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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Natural Resources Committee Jun 22nd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We're also creating thousands, really thousands, of jobs.
- It's a project that is poised to create over 1,000 construction worker jobs, as a senator pointed out
- I want everybody still to stay here and us work with them and not them leave and us lose jobs.
- Just a couple comments. bill forward doesn't want to lose jobs or lose industries.
- base, high-quality jobs.
Summary:
The committee heard several bills, with SB 1350 by Senator McNerney presented first. The measure would expand California’s use of renewable hydrogen in the power sector by allowing renewable portfolio standard credit for power plants using green hydrogen, with supporters emphasizing grid reliability, clean-energy goals, in-state investment, and construction jobs. Support came from labor, clean-energy, municipal utility, and local government representatives; NRDC Action Fund withdrew opposition after amendments, while a few groups remained opposed or neutral. The committee later took a roll call and SB 1350 passed out on a due pass recommendation.
The committee also heard SB 1180 by Senator Allen, which would set operational rules for the Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund created under SB 54, including clearer eligible uses, transparency, technical assistance, and access for tribes and smaller community groups. Environmental justice, ocean, conservation, and local government groups strongly supported the bill, saying it would ensure the fund addresses plastic pollution’s public health and environmental harms. Industry and manufacturing groups opposed unless amended, arguing the bill should stay tightly tied to plastic waste reduction and not broaden into source-reduction policy. After quorum was established, the committee approved SB 1180 on a due pass recommendation to Appropriations.
SB 1326 by Senator Wahab was then heard to strengthen tribal consultation and tribal cultural resource protections under CEQA by recognizing tribal registers and requiring feasible avoidance or mitigation measures when tribes identify resources. Tribal representatives and supporters said the bill would better protect sacred sites and tribal knowledge, while cities, counties, utilities, builders, and rural county groups opposed unless amended, citing implementation concerns, possible litigation, and uncertainty for infrastructure and housing projects. The committee voted the bill out on a due pass recommendation to Appropriations.
Finally, SB 954 by Senator Blakespear was presented as a cleanup of last year’s SB 131 advanced-manufacturing CEQA exemption, narrowing eligible projects and adding guardrails such as setbacks, air-quality limits, tribal consultation, labor standards, and habitat protections. Environmental and labor groups supported the bill as a needed correction to an overly broad exemption, while business, manufacturing, housing, and local-government groups opposed, warning it could make the exemption unusable and slow investment. Members debated the balance between environmental protection and manufacturing competitiveness, and the committee voted SB 954 out on a due pass recommendation to the Labor and Employment Committee; the transcript then moved on to SB 1031 on compostable plastics, which was introduced but not acted on in the portion provided.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- and opportunities for educations in jobs and opportunities for educations in these<00:09:20.560><c>
- Um, we cannot and should not discount the jobs that would actually be created, whether it's owned by
- Um we cannot and should not discount<00:15:38.720><c> the</c><00:15:39.040><c> jobs</c><00:15:39.279>
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- She said they should remember that their job is to serve.
Committee:
House Taxes
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a tough job.
- This is a really tough job.
- They're raising families, they're business leaders, they have a full-time job, sometimes multiple jobs
- I do have to admit I am four months in on this job. Yes, Mr.
- I think that's our job and that we should do that.
Committee:
House Education
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee 2nd Revision: Agenda Revised: 10:30 a.m. Ethics Commission
A&B General Government Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- So just to start off first, that first line item is our Sooner Job Challenge Program.
- And item number one, I suppose it was Sooner Job Challenge Programs.
- Interim period, get some job training.
- I think we do a very good job.
- Many have been who have only been on the job for One year.
Committee:
House A&B General Government Subcommittee
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It simply gives Texas businesses the ability to fill vital jobs where no qualified Texan is available
- to TDA, then they've got personnel to, this is their job to go out and address it.
- I, this, this is to make sure that manufacturing jobs can come back to United States.
- They will invest elsewhere, taking their job, uh, taking the job they create with them.
- Their business talent and job creation to Texas.
Bills:
HB 256 , HB 1308 , HB 1554 , HB 1743 , HB 2308 , HB 2351 , HB 2858 , HB 3676 , HB 3784 , HB 4312 , HB 4552 , HB 4823 , HB 4852 , HB 5007 , HB 5010 , HB 5520 , HB 5524 , HCR 19
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
E-verify, employment verification, illegal employment, state contracts, government entities, license suspension, immigration compliance, state grant funding, E-Verify, compliance, penalties, immigration, government contracts, employee status, state contractors, E-verify program, legally present, employment practices, legal services, public money
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- I mean, I had no job on Molokaʻi.
- My wife had no job, but she was able to get a job, and so we both started working after we both had jobs
- I mean, I had no job on Molokaʻi.
- My wife had no job, but she was able to get a job, and so we both started working after we both had jobs
- They wanted to pay him 2 cents a pound, so he quit farming, went to work, and he worked odd jobs.
Committee:
Senate Hawaiian Affairs
Summary:
The Committee on Hawaiian Affairs heard Governor’s Message 590, the nomination of Archie Kappa Kappa Kappa to the Hawaiian Homes Commission, and received extensive testimony in support from Department of Hawaiian Home Lands staff, labor representatives, and community members. Supporters emphasized his leadership during the Maui wildfire response, his cultural standing, his long community service, and his experience with the Polynesian Voyaging Society. In his own remarks, Kappa described his background as a lifelong Lahaina resident, former lifeguard supervisor, and community organizer, and said he would prioritize commission duties while balancing his voyaging commitments.
Members questioned Kappa about attendance, his understanding of the Hawaiian Homes Commission’s responsibilities, and his views on commercialization and revenue generation. He said commission meetings would be his priority, acknowledged he could not guarantee attendance at every meeting, and explained that commercialization meant using commercial properties and leases to generate revenue for Hawaiian Homes communities. He also said he supported using land assets to reduce reliance on legislative appropriations. A senator raised Act 279 and the need to focus spending on reducing the waitlist; Kappa said the act was complex and that he did not yet know enough to speak confidently beyond what he had read. The committee did not vote on the nomination in the portion provided and said it would return to voting later.
The committee then took up Governor’s Message 591, the nomination of Lawrence Luua to the Hawaiian Homes Commission. Testimony described his background in banking, military service, Maui County planning, and long involvement with Molokaʻi homestead matters. Luua told the committee he had lived the challenges of homestead life, including housing and road issues, and said he wanted to continue the work of Prince Kūhiō by helping Native Hawaiians return to and live on the land. In response to questions, he said he began attending DHHL meetings regularly in July 2024, discussed concerns about county road obligations versus homestead responsibilities, and said he had struggled with Act 279 because he was concerned about moving funds away from other projects even though he supported its goal of reducing the waitlist. The committee then moved on to the next governor’s message and testimony for another nominee, with a SHPD representative briefly introducing the background of that nominee, but no action was taken in the excerpt provided.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- People that it's sort of on the job training, you do get certified, but you might not have gotten much
- So if we can do a better job, say, preparing people for the rigors of the classroom so they don't quit
- Chairman and I know No, we don't do a very good job of evaluating SPED students.
- So that's the job that I have statutorily.
- And usually with a job offer.
Committee:
House Public Education
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Um all our staff too on both sides of the aisle, nonpartisan staff did a really great job.
- Um all our staff too on both sides of the aisle, nonpartisan staff did a really great job.
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Committee:
House Ways and Means
Keywords:
HF2432, judiciary finance bill, public safety finance bill, corrections policy, crime victims, victim services, Minnesota victims of crime account, court fees, marriage license fee, financial crimes, fraud investigations, insurance fraud, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, BCA, Commerce Fraud Bureau, wage theft, automobile theft prevention, nonprofit security grants, 911 funding, POST Board
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- If you have issues back at home and you're trying to do your job, it can be a real burden.
- That we get these individuals into the jobs that they love.
- my opinion, the most important efforts we can do in the state of Texas to get good people into the jobs
- In our Licensed to Work report, we found that 63 of the 102 low-to-moderate-income jobs often require
- The first way to help a veteran is to make sure that they get a job.
Committee:
Senate Veteran Affairs
Keywords:
military education, early registration, ROTC, corps of cadets, higher education, military academy, scholarship, military, Texas Armed Services, military spouses, occupational licensing, state agency, license requirements, reciprocity, training and education, debt obligation, voter information, ballot, elections, transparency
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- Job duties are not the same. Just... 200 people. Job duties are not the same.
- So, again, I don't want to get into personnel and job descriptions unless we want to—job descriptions
- at will, even though the salaries are determined by me within the confines of the approved... ...and job
- , unless we want to—job descriptions and employee performance evaluations—but even though a constitutional
- incentive to do that when maybe the previous office didn't have the need for those type of wages for the job
Committee:
All JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE
Summary:
The committee first reviewed a list of bills already ready for “do pass,” including several House bills (HB 1010, 1018, 1020, 1023, 1041, 1055, 1077) and Senate bills (SB 4, 16, 23, 24, 55, 59). It then took up the JBC Personnel Subcommittee report (B1), where a substitute motion to separate out the governor’s staff-related item for a separate vote was debated at length. Members raised concerns about transparency, a requested appearance by a governor’s staff member, and whether the administration should be compelled to testify. The substitute motion failed on a roll-call division vote, and the committee then adopted the subcommittee report as presented.
The committee next questioned Treasurer John Thurston on House Bill 1034 and his office’s budget request, focusing on salary increases for his executive team, the size of raises under the new pay plan, office hours, and whether the increases were justified. Thurston said the request was to fully fund the approved pay plan, later reduced to a 10% increase after discussion with legislative leaders, and explained that salaries were set within the approved plan. Several members criticized the raises as too large or unfair, while others noted the compromise and thanked him for cooperating. The committee then adopted the HB 1034 letter.
After that, the committee reviewed Schedule C and several special-language items, including amendments to SB 4, SB 58, HB 1052, and SB 77. It discussed a new item allowing DFA to establish a GAMP program for agricultural extension office improvements, with no funding attached, and adopted it. The committee then passed or adopted a series of measures, including SB 29, SB 51, HB 1034, and the remaining ready bills listed at the start of the meeting. SB 4 was set aside as not ready. The meeting ended with notice that the committee would reconvene in 15 minutes in another room to handle special language.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- staff, it makes more than the chief of staff of this governor, who oversees what, about 200 people, job
- Job duties are not the same.
- So, again, I don't want to get into personnel and job descriptions unless we want to—job descriptions
- at will, even though the salaries are determined by me within the confines of the approved... ...and job
- descriptions unless we want to—job descriptions and employee performance evaluations—but even though
Committee:
All JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 03/31/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It is all computer, so they don't create jobs, even though they eat up our energy at huge discounted
- It is all computer, so they don't create jobs, even though they eat up our energy at huge discounted
- It is all computer, so they don't create jobs, even though they eat up our energy at huge discounted
- , to remind people that quite a few states are making the same decision, because they don't create jobs
- And it will not impact the jobs or the economic activity from A.I.
Summary:
The Senate convened, approved the prior journal, and then took up a Rules Committee report advancing several bills directly to third reading, including Senate Print 9630, an appropriations extender for government operations, and Senate Print 9631, an extender related to Part U1 of Chapter 61 of the Laws of 2023. The chamber then moved to the controversial calendar and debated the first extender, with Senator O’Mara questioning what the bill covered, how much funding it extended, and the status of budget negotiations. Senator Krueger said the extender covered about $1 billion for payroll and certain payments for agencies including Health, Law, OPWDD, and Veterans Services through April 7, and described the budget talks as still unresolved, with no announced follow-up Joint Budget Conference Committee meetings or table targets. She also discussed utility affordability proposals, including a three-year moratorium on A.I. and crypto data/storage facilities and support for green energy and low-income ratepayer relief. O’Mara argued the lack of urgency and absence of written proposals on climate and utility costs was concerning. Both extender bills were then passed, with the first receiving 59 ayes and the second passing 46-13 after debate over its two-year duration.
The Senate then adopted the resolution calendar, excluding two items initially, and took up two resolutions. Resolution 1821, sponsored by Senator Ramos, recognized Farmworkers Day and highlighted the essential role of farmworkers, the history of organizing for farmworker rights, and concerns about immigrant workers facing fear and retaliation; Senator May added support, noting the importance of farm labor to dairy production and food supply and the impact of deportation fears on farms in her district. The resolution was adopted. Resolution 1823, sponsored by Senator Zellner, proclaimed March 20, 2026 as Behavior Analysis Day in New York, recognizing applied behavior analysis and its benefits for individuals with developmental disabilities, autism, education, healthcare, and other fields; it was also adopted.
The chamber also welcomed a group of students from Queens visiting Albany, with Senator Comrie speaking about the importance of civics education and government engagement. After the introductions and acknowledgments, there was no further business, and the Senate adjourned until Wednesday, April 1, at 11:00 a.m.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House DFL Media Availability 6/9/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I stepped up and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota.
- I think that their job was to make folks who voted for that bill feel like crap, and I think that they
- I stepped up and I got the job done do.
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- was to make folks think that their job was to make folks who<00:03:50.879><c> voted</c><00:03:51.200
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Most of those were denied their claims, saying that it was out of scope, that it, it wasn't job-related
- The Skills Development Fund is the state's premier job training program designed to help businesses partner
- Hopefully the Senate will do their job. We, we have trouble getting them to do that, but I close.
- Being a parent is a full-time job on top of education and a career, but these hardworking families and
- The governor's healthcare workforce Task Force really did a great job of looking at every single aspect
Committee:
House S/C on Workforce
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- journey and decisions needed to produce laws that impact all of us, and the patience and perseverance of Job
- The lead team is out front here, but it's 200 people that it takes to get this job done.
- She's always out there to make your job better. So thank you.
- soon as he could, he returned home to Conroe to build a law practice, to start businesses, to create jobs
- No one does that job.
Bills:
SCR7
Keywords:
legislature, adjournment, permissions, Texas Constitution, session, legislative authority, 1185, senate, all
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Counsel Oversight Jan 13th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- that case, and they represented the full spectrum of customers in that case, and they did a marvelous job
- and do a job to the quality that the people that they're replacing fulfilled their responsibilities.
- And I think we did a really effective job.
- I want again, thank you for the, for the job that you did.
- Thank you for the job that you did.
Summary:
The joint committee met with a quorum present and first received an overview of its jurisdiction and duties related to appointing the Florida Public Counsel. Staff explained the committee’s authority under joint rules and state law, noted that the current Public Counsel’s term expires February 28, 2025, and that applications for the next four-year term were open with a February 6, 2025 deadline. The committee then heard an extensive update from Public Counsel Walt Truerweiler on the Office of Public Counsel’s work representing utility ratepayers before the Public Service Commission and in appeals.
Truerweiler described the office’s caseload and priorities, including electric, gas, water, and wastewater rate cases; storm recovery dockets; cost-recovery clauses; rulemakings; and customer service hearings. He emphasized that the office seeks to challenge unsupported or imprudent costs, find value for customers, and use expert analysis and customer testimony to shape outcomes. He highlighted recent and ongoing matters, including major Duke, TECO, Sunshine water/wastewater, and hurricane recovery proceedings, and said the office had fully litigated four of its last five rate cases, while also achieving a major settlement in Duke that reduced a requested increase and imposed cost controls on solar projects.
Members praised the office’s work and asked about the benefits of settlements, staffing and compensation, and how the office decides when to fully intervene versus provide guidance or monitor a case. Truerweiler said settlements can create predictability, reduce uncertainty and expense, and produce tangible value for both customers and utilities. He also acknowledged recruitment challenges, including lower pay than comparable agencies and difficulty attracting attorneys who do not want in-person litigation work. The committee took no substantive action beyond receiving the presentations, and adjourned after a motion was adopted.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- And so I do believe in it, and I do believe a lot of parents do a great job.
- It is your job to make sure that appropriate materials are in the library.
- That those school board members that are elected and do their job aren't moved to the side.
- They can still do their job with the community standards, but it just cannot include these things that
- She introduced herself to me and she said, “I’ve got a job now and I’m doing great.”
Committee:
House Education Oversight
Keywords:
postsecondary education, standardized test scores, educational equity, higher learning access, Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program, HB2978, school libraries, library media center, library media program, community standards, sexually explicit conduct, obscene material, age-appropriate materials, school curriculum, book challenges, book banning, censorship, public schools, school board, education committee
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- That made me step away from my professorship job.
- We've got job training, One thing, education should stop at high school.
- We've got job training for our economy, all these different things going on.
- Then they can go out and get that job, their apprenticeship. I swung a hand.
- They're 17 or 18 years old, then they can go out and get that job, their apprenticeship.
Committee:
House Education
Summary:
The House Education Committee heard a presentation from Dr. Ed Kates, headmaster of Kootenai Classical Academy, describing the Hillsdale College charter school model and its emphasis on classical education, virtue development, Socratic discussion, phonics, limited technology use, constitutional history, and sports. He highlighted the school’s rapid growth, strong waitlists, spelling bee success, and student achievement, and answered questions about how new schools are founded, why some districts have declined the curriculum, the role of music, the purpose of education, and the school’s per-student cost. Committee members generally praised the school’s approach and discussed broader concerns about education focused too narrowly on jobs or testing.
The committee then heard from Dr. Sally Brown of the Idaho Higher Education Literacy Partnership (I-HELP), joined by colleagues from NNU and Boise State. She explained that I-HELP works across Idaho’s higher education institutions to strengthen teacher preparation in the science of reading, revise literacy standards and assessments, and support literacy initiatives statewide. She described the partnership’s concept and competency guides, reliability and validity work on assessments, and a literacy learning lab at the College of Idaho that trains pre-service tutors and supports first-grade reading intervention. Members asked about collaboration with BYU-Idaho, whether the effort is improving teacher readiness, and how the state’s K-3 reading investments are working; Brown said the state is moving in the right direction but emphasized the need for continued teacher preparation, mentoring, and instructional coaching. No formal votes or committee actions were taken.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Human Services Feb 18th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Will did a great job briefing the details of this bill.
- Being a victim of crime is a full-time job that began for me unexpectedly in 2011, and a job I don't
- So, as he chases me out of jobs and houses and entire neighborhoods, I struggled to get assistance to
- There's a gentleman, Drayland Harris, who was talking about what if you don't have a job?
- Because usually if you have a job, you have to pay this debt back.
Bills:
HB2510
Committee:
Senate Human Services
Keywords:
community custody, probation, Department of Corrections, DOC supervision, Washington criminal law, sentencing, felony supervision, risk assessment, sex offense, serious violent offense, domestic violence, repetitive domestic violence, failure to register, sex offender registration, dangerous mentally ill offender, indeterminate sentence, parole, conditional commutation, gross misdemeanor, misdemeanor
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Feb 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Did a wonderful job there, and he's with us now.
- Did a wonderful job there and he's with us now.
- That's not a union job. That's not a union job, but they're going there.
- They are doing big jobs. Contractors. They're not little guys. They are doing big jobs.
- Sounds like you did a really good job. All right. Thank you, Senator Worth.
Summary:
The committee took up a series of bills in its final meeting, beginning with House Bill 200, which had previously been left on the table on a tie vote. The committee voted to bring it back and then approved it as amended on a 7-2 vote. House Bill 38, dealing with coverage for complex rehabilitation technology devices and allowing up to two devices in a three-year period, received testimony in support and was advanced on a 9-0 vote.
Members then heard House Bill 270, which would require certain public works projects to contribute to apprenticeship and training programs or the state apprenticeship fund. Supporters argued it would create a level playing field and strengthen workforce development, while opponents said it would raise costs, burden contractors without accessible apprenticeship programs, and hurt small businesses. An amendment to delay the effective date failed 4-6, and the bill was then approved 6-4. House Bill 291, the Taxation and Revenue Department’s annual tax cleanup bill, was presented as a package of technical and policy updates, including rounding rules, fee changes, tax credit clarifications, and property tax collection adjustments; it passed 8-2.
House Bill 108, a cleanup measure for watershed districts to address tax-levying authority after a change from elected to appointed boards, passed 10-0. House Bill 306, which limits facility fees for preventive care, vaccinations, and telehealth while exempting rural facilities, also passed 10-0 after brief discussion. House Bill 20, allowing Native American applicants to request a voluntary designation on driver’s licenses and ID cards with privacy protections, received supportive testimony from tribal and law enforcement representatives and passed 10-0. Finally, House Bill 309, expanding a special property tax valuation method to include electric power storage facilities, drew support from labor and energy representatives and passed 10-0. The chair closed by thanking staff and members and adjourned the meeting, noting it was likely the committee’s last of the session.